 14th Of November
Middle East
1979 - U.S. President Carter froze all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks abroad in response to the taking of 63 American hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran.
1987 - In the lobby of Beirut's American University Hospital a bomb hidden in a box of chocolates exploded. Seven people were killed including the woman carrying the box.
1991 - U.S. and British authorities announced indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
1999 - The United Nations imposed economic sanctions against the Taliban that controlled most of Afghanistan. The sanctions were imposed because the Taliban had refused to turn over Osama bin Laden, who had been charged with masterminding the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
2002 - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the United States is "prepared and concerned" about possible Iraq-sponsored terrorist attacks if a war began.
2004 - Iran notified the IAEA in writing that it would suspend uranium enrichment and related activities to dispel suspicions that it was trying to build nuclear arms.
The rest of the world
1832 - The first streetcar goes into operation.
1851 - Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick.
1935 - The Commonwealth of the Philippines is officially proclaimed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1969 - NASA launches Apollo 12, the second lunar landing mission and the first mission to make a pinpoint landing on the moon.
1972 - The Dow Jones industrial average closes above 1,000 for the first time.
Who am I?
I was born on this day in 1922. From 1992 to 1996, I was the secretary general of the United Nations.
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